Ambassador Andrew Young and Congressman John Dingell answer a question about Occupy Wall Street at the Drum Major Institute’s We Marched With Martin event.

You can watch the entire event here.

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The event is set to begin at 12:30 PM eastern.

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h/t @dfreelon

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A little Leo McGarry to brighten your day.

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From the satirical Tea Party Report.

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A video for LGBT youth around the country and the It Gets Better Project, featuring U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

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“The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that.”

Because to conservatives, losing points on a stock exchange is worse than losing lives.

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A video of then Republican Presidential Nominee Ronald Reagan giving a speech on Labor Day, 1980. He is referring to Poland in the speech, but he frames the concept as universal:

These are the values that are inspiring those brave workers in Poland.

The values that have inspired other dissidents under Communist domination who have been willing to go into the gulag and suffer the torture of imprisonment because of their dissidence.

They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

They remind us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

You and I must protect and preserve freedom here, or it will not be passed on to our children, and it will disappear everywhere in the world.

Today, the workers in Poland are showing a new generation how high is the price of freedom, but also how much it is worth that price.

I want more than anything I have ever wanted, to have an administration that will through its actions, at home and in the international arena, let millions of people know, the Miss Liberty still lifts her lamp beside the golden door.

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Berkman Fellows Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw collected data soon after the 2008 presidential elections on a diverse group of young adults from Obama’s home city of Chicago. In this presentation Hargittai and Shaw look at the relationship of online and offline political engagement based on this data, and consider the relative importance of numerous factors in who was more or less likely to vote and engage in other types of political action.

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The birds and the pigs attempt to finalize a peace treaty over eggs. The F-bomb is dropped a couple of times so it’s NSFW. Those birds love their salty language.

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